Google has taken the beta tag off Chrome Frame, which Google says will let users "access modern web technologies like HTML5 on legacy browsers" – namely, Internet Explorer 6, 7 and 8.
Chrome Frame, first unveiled last year, is already used by Google's own services such as Docs, YouTube, and the Orkut social networking site, as well as third-party sites like DeviantART, the Hootsuit Twitter application, and github.
With the stable release of Chrome Frame, Google is encouraging developers to adapt their Web applications for the open source IE plugin. With Chrome Frame, developers can use the HTML5 canvas tag and Google's JavaScript engine on IE6, 7 and 8.
"Some of those [HTML5 and JavaScript] capabilities are not supported by Internet Explorer, especially its older versions," Google software engineer Alex Russell says in a video about Chrome Frame.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/206193
Chrome Frame, first unveiled last year, is already used by Google's own services such as Docs, YouTube, and the Orkut social networking site, as well as third-party sites like DeviantART, the Hootsuit Twitter application, and github.
With the stable release of Chrome Frame, Google is encouraging developers to adapt their Web applications for the open source IE plugin. With Chrome Frame, developers can use the HTML5 canvas tag and Google's JavaScript engine on IE6, 7 and 8.
"Some of those [HTML5 and JavaScript] capabilities are not supported by Internet Explorer, especially its older versions," Google software engineer Alex Russell says in a video about Chrome Frame.
More: http://www.pcworld.com/article/206193